References: Bibliography
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This is an article I refer to
over and over because I believe it perfectly embodies my sense of identity.
It may be difficult for NT to understand the difference that this sense of
identity makes when looking at dissociative disorders. Partly because the cause
of dissociation and trauma can differ from that of NTs, but also how
multiplicity is experienced is affected by this Inner-focused perspective.
How autistic people experience
and recover from trauma is different from NTs. Here are some very interesting
pointers.
Again, looking at the causes of
trauma, our different perspective and egalitarian attitude exacerbates the
effect of much of the prejudice and discrimination we suffer because it is
directly opposed to our inner sense of right and wrong.
- van
der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The haunted
self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization.
W W Norton & Co.
Available for free download :
Book: https://www.docdroid.net/arPAtHT/van-der-hart-2006-the-haunted-self-pdf
Abstract
Life is an ongoing struggle for patients who have been chronically traumatized. They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated and confusing for the therapist. Many patients have substantial problems with daily living and relationships, including serious intrapsychic conflicts and maladaptive coping strategies. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them. Even when survivors attempt to hide their distress beneath a facade of normality (a common strategy), therapists often feel besieged by their many symptoms and serious pain. It is a small wonder, then, that many survivors of chronic traumatization show little if any gain, even after consulting several therapists, and that quite a few have been labeled as untreatable or treatment resistant. In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience. Based on the theory of structural dissociation of the personality in combination with a Janetian psychology of action, the authors have developed a model of phase-oriented treatment that focuses on the identification and treatment of structural dissociation and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. The foundation of this approach is to support patients in learning more effective mental and behavioral actions that will enable them to become more adaptive in life and to resolve their structural dissociation. This principle implies an overall therapeutic goal of raising the integrative capacity in order to cope with the demands of daily life and deal with the haunting remnants of the past, with the "unfinished business" of traumatic memories. Clinicians, students of clinical psychology and psychiatry, researchers, and all those interested in adult survivors of chronic child abuse and neglect will find helpful insights and tools that may make treatment more effective and efficient, and more tolerable for the suffering patient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
- van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Viking.
Available for free download: https://app.box.com/s/0t352y734r8kso7rkasbvc8s5dxgv5dj
Abstract
This profoundly humane book
offers a sweeping new understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma,
offering hope and clarity to everyone touched by its devastation. Trauma has
emerged as one of the great public health challenges of our time, not only
because of its well-documented effects on combat veterans and on victims of
accidents and crimes, but because of the hidden toll of sexual and family
violence and of communities and schools devastated by abuse, neglect, and
addiction. Drawing on more than thirty years at the forefront of research and
clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that the terror and isolation at
the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body. New insights into our
survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience incomprehensible
anxiety and numbing and intolerable rage, and how trauma affects their capacity
to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel
at home in their own bodies. Having lost the sense of control of themselves and
frustrated by failed therapies, they often fear that they are damaged beyond
repair. The Body Keeps the Score is the inspiring story of how
a group of therapists and scientists-together with their courageous and
memorable patients—has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science,
attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma
survivors from the tyranny of the past. These new paths to recovery activate
the brain's natural neuroplasticity to rewire disturbed functioning and rebuild
step by step the ability to "know what you know and feel what you feel."
They also offer experiences that directly counteract the helplessness and
invisibility associated with trauma, enabling both adults and children to
reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives. Readers will come away from
this book with awe at human resilience and at the power of our
relationships—whether in the intimacy of home or in our wider communities—to
both hurt and heal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights
reserved)
- Long version of paper in “Aspects of Consciousness: Essays on Physics, Death and the Mind.” Ingrid Fredricksson, editor. McFarland, 2013. - Consciousness and Consequences The physical nature of mind James E. Beichler, Ph.D.
Available for free download: https://www.academia.edu/7780617/Consciousness_and_Consequences_The_physical_nature_of_mind
Abstract
Science investigates phenomena in
nature that are either experienced or observed by people. However, some special
classes of phenomena are generally considered outside of the realm of science
if not just plain unscientific, i.e., unworthy of scientific investigation by
the majority of scientists. Science has generally dismissed or ignored any
phenomena directly associated with mind or consciousness, which amounts to a
scientific bias against these concepts. Even psychology, the science of mind,
neither directly studies nor even speculates on the ultimate nature of mind and
consciousness, but hides behind behaviourism. This shortcoming of science is
actually a historical artifact inherited from the earlier break between science
and religion and the subsequent separation of human thought into the two realms
of MIND and MATTER, but it is also likely that the unintended consequences of
adopting a physical theory or model of consciousness are more than science has
been willing to accept. The present shortcomings of science in this regard were
institutionalized at the end of the eighteenth century by the adoption of
positivistic philosophies by the majority of scientists and scholars. But
nature has had her way in spite of the best intentions and efforts of science to
the contrary: New research and recent discoveries point directly to the
conclusion that science has reached a point in its normal advancement beyond
which it cannot pass until it distinguishes between matter and the
consciousness that is perceiving and interpreting matter, thus necessitating
the first ever theories of both consciousness and matter. Keywords: Life, Mind,
Consciousness, matter, survival of consciousness, afterlife, quantum theory,
relativity, four-dimensional, space, five-dimensional, space-time, metric,
memory, electromagnetism, scalar potential, vector potential, magnetic
potential, physical reality
- Ross, C. A. (1997). Dissociative identity disorder: Diagnosis,
clinical features, and treatment of multiple personality (2nd ed.).
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Available for free download: https://archive.org/details/dissociativeiden0000ross/page/10/mode/2up
Abstract
Since the publication of Colin A.
Ross's influential work Multiple Personality Disorder in 1989, this challenging
field has evolved rapidly--with new thinking, new research, and a new name: dissociative
identity disorder (DID). Keeping pace with these developments, this retitled
Second Edition has been skilfully revised and expanded to offer a
comprehensive, detailed, and fully up-to-date grounding in the history,
diagnosis, and treatment of Did.
Readers will find three new chapters covering epidemiology, a sound critique of
sceptics of DID, and the problem of attachment to the perpetrator and the locus
of control shift. There is also a fresh look at the pathways leading to DID, a
discussion of the false memory controversy, and more, with material throughout
based on the latest research and the author's extensive clinical and forensic
experience.
By providing an in-depth examination of this complex illness, Dissociative
Identity Disorder not only facilitates a deeper understanding of people who
have used dissociation to cope with years of childhood physical, sexual, and
emotional abuse, but also reveals new insights into many other psychiatric
disorders in which dissociation plays a role. Like Multiple Personality
Disorder, this updated volume is an authoritative and indispensable reference for
psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and
other mental health professionals, as well as researchers in these fields.
"Ross provides a comprehensive and interesting account of the history of
MPD, dispelling many myths. He presents new insight into the treatment of MPD,
with information about such concerns as how to talk to a patient, how to
schedule your time, and how to keep your private and [professional] lives
separate. . . . Multiple Personality Disorder will be an invaluable addition to
the reference libraries of sexual abuse clinics, child abuse agencies, and
correctional facilities, as well as clinicians." --Family Violence
Bulletin
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- van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The treatment of traumatic memories: Synthesis, realization, and integration. In B. van der Kolk, A. C. McFarlane, & L. Weisaeth (Eds.), Traumatic stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society (pp. 279-294). Guilford Press. Available here
- Nijenhuis, E. R. S., van der Hart, O., & Steele, K. (2010). Theory of dissociation: Affect, language, and the self. In J. Aronson (Ed.), Affective neuroscience and the development of the self (pp. 355-378). Routledge.
- Steele, K., van der Hart, O., & Nijenhuis, E. R. S. (2005). Phase-oriented treatment of structural dissociation in complex traumatization: Overcoming trauma-related phobias. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 6(3), 11-53.
- Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Solomon, R. (2010). Dissociation of the personality in complex trauma-related disorders and EMDR: Theoretical considerations. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 4(2), 76-92.
